Susan FitzGerald is an Irish actress, best known for her work in television and her work in Irish theatre. She also played the role of May in Samuel Beckett's Footfalls for the Gate Theatre's Beckett on Film project.[1][2] She is currently appearing in the Dublin production of Noel Coward's Present Laughter.[3]
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Fitzgerald graduated from Trinity College in the 1970’s, and since then she played leading roles in the Gate Theatre in plays by a variety of Irish and foreign writers. She is particularly known for playing May in Footfalls in the Gate’s celebrated Beckett Festival in New York and London, and filmed Footfalls for the Beckett on Film project. She has also worked for the Abbey Theatre, in plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hedda Gabler. Recently at the Gate she has appeared as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, as Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (she reprised the role in the Spoleto Festival in Charleston) and Jane Eyre (directed by Alan Stanford), in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, directed by Dominic Cooke and in Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The Misanthrope, Pygmalion, directed by Robin Lefèvre and furthermore in The Constant Wife, directed by Alan Stanford. She has also appeared in a variety of other projects in Ireland, including various plays at the Olympia Theatre.
Fitzgerald's small screen work includes numerous appearances as in Fair City, Rebel Heart, Bachelor’s Walk, Proof and The Big Bow Wow. In film, she has appeared in Fintan Connolly The Trouble With Sex, Satellites and Meteorites and Happy Ever Afters.
She lives and works in Dublin and has three children Sarah, Sophie and Richard.